Incumbent president Steve Ninvalle will serve another four years at the helm of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), following a recent vote of the Electoral Congress held at the National Racquet Centre on Woolford Avenue last Friday.
Ninvalle and his committee of executives were unopposed, and Dr Marissa Parris will be taking up the position of first Vice-President, while Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Nedd and Carl Graham will serve as respective second and third Vice Presidents. Stacey Correia will serve as Secretary; Dexter Patterson will serve as Treasurer, and Seon Bristol will serve as Assistant Secretary/Treasurer alongside Ninvalle for the next term.
In a comment invited by this publication, Ninvalle thanked the country’s boxing gyms for supporting his re-election, and noted that a lot of collaboration is to be done over his next tenure.
Steve Ninvalle would serve another term at the helm of the GBA
“Well, I thank the gyms of the Guyana Boxing Association for having the confidence in me and the other executives so as to give us another 4 years to try to move along with the development of Boxing, not only in Guyana, but in the Caribbean. It’s a lot of work that has to be done. We’ve been doing a lot of work, but this time around I hope we can have much more collaboration from all the affiliates, referee/judges, coaches, boxers and the executive members,” Ninvalle told Guyana Times Sport.
Citing the attraction of more females to the sport as a goal for this next term, the GBA President also shared additional priority areas for his administration when he
divulged, “High on the priority is, again, our Nursery, the Under-16, the Juniors; and also to have our referee/judges and coaches certified. I think now we only have one 1-star coach, Mr Clifton Moore from the Vergenoegen Gym; and one three-star coach. We need to make sure that even if we don’t get all (certified), most of our coaches should be certified during the course of next year.
“We also want to see Guyana moving to a stage where we have 3-star referee/judges also. That is something that I will be speaking with the International Boxing Association hierarchy about when we have our congress in Dubai early next year,” he disclosed.
Meanwhile, Ninvalle’s first task as returning President will be to see off a team to the Caribbean Boxing Championships in spite of late notification.
“First and foremost on our agenda is our participation at the Caribbean Championships, to be held in St Lucia during the second week of December. There’s approximately 4 million (dollars) that we will have to get in order to send our team to that prestigious and very important tournament,” he disclosed.
